1989... One of the two superpowers which has dominated the 20th century
is on the verge of being torn apart. The old communists regime which
has held sway since the Revolution of 1917 is weak and divided.
Dissident voices, silent for too long, have been raised against the
corrupt and inefficient gangsterism of a morally and financially
bankrupt ruling party. A new age of openness and reconstruction is
dawning...
This is the United Socialist States of America.
When Eugene Debs led the Revolution, few expected it to lead to the
iron-fisted regime of Chairman Al "Scarface" Capone, a dictatorship
that would last into the 1950s. But no tyranny, capitalist or
communists, can stop real revolutionaries like Buddy Holy, Howard
Hughes, Tom Joad, Eliot Ness, Kurt Vonnegut, andthe Blues Brothers.
This
is the story of 20th century where America had a revolution... and
Russia didn't; where there were Tsars in the Kremlin and Commissars in
the White House. Where America invaded Japan and Britain fought the war
in Vietnam; where Isaac Asimov was a Russian TV astrologer and Ed Gein
was a Hero of Labor.
Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne turn history
on its head with this novel of "what if...?" – a must-read for
Proletariats world-wide!
